Sarah Ell: A portrait of New Zealand and the sea

From Nine To Noon, 10:07 am on 3 December 2018
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Photo: Will Calver

As the last habitable land mass in the world to be settled by humans, New Zealand has a history representing the two great seafaring traditions, Polynesian and European. 

Sailor, writer and historian Sarah Ell has written, 'Ocean', an aquatic history of Aotearoa from the arrival of the first waka to the latest the America's Cup racing yacht.

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